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Category Archives: Energy Probe News
It’s the Sun, stupid
Four years ago, when I first started profiling scientists who were global warming skeptics, I soon learned two things: Solar scientists were overwhelmingly skeptical that humans caused climate change and, overwhelmingly, they were reluctant to go public with their views. Often, they refused to be quoted at all, saying they feared for their funding, or they feared other recriminations from climate scientists in the doomsayer camp. When the skeptics agreed to be quoted at all, they often hedged their statements, to give themselves wiggle room if accused of being a global warming denier. Continue reading
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A US$13-billion business
Is it any wonder that the BP calamity occurred? Here’s what has been preoccupying its environmental regulator, the Minerals Management Service, ever since MMS was established in 1982.
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U.S. law disaster
Washington laid the groundwork for the Gulf oil spill by letting the offshore oil industry dodge its liabilities.
BP deserves to be excoriated for contaminating the Gulf of Mexico. Preoccupied with phony multi-million-dollar PR campaigns to cast itself as green and “Beyond Petroleum,” it failed to focus on the actual multi-billion-dollar environmental catastrophe that could come of a worst-case blow-out.
But BP’s bad conduct is as nothing compared to that of the real villain in this piece: the U.S. federal government.
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Climategate scientists: We’re not guilty
Climate-change partisans find mere sins of omission.
To allay public concern over Climategate — the unauthorized release of some 3000 documents from the computers of the Climatic Research Unit at East Anglia University — the university established two independent inquiries to attend to the widespread view that science had been corrupted through the distortion and destruction of data, through cover-ups, and through the perversion of the peer review process.
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The new climate game
(April 10, 2010) Right from the early days of global warming controversy, they whacked any scientist who dissented from the view that CO2 was warming the planet in a dangerous way. Up popped other skeptical scientists, and WHACK!! Down they went. Continue reading
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Don’t bet on the Bloom Box
(March 28, 2010) Investors could soon be scratching their heads over a rumoured $1.5-billion IPO for Bloom Energy and its fuel cell, a gizmo the size of a CD that can provide power to a home without needing to be connected to the electric utility’s power lines. Unveiled amid much hoopla on 60 Minutes last month, the Bloom fuel cell is touted for being able to run on natural gas or biofuels, for being more efficient than a conventional natural gas power station and for reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Continue reading
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The burden of believing in global weirding
(March 9, 2010) We are all — yes, I think I can generalize here — desperate for some good news when it comes to global warming. Continue reading
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Wind opponents blow off steam in Creemore
(March 9, 2010) A March 6 meeting, outlining the downside of wind turbines, drew close to 200 people to Creemore’s Station on the Green. Continue reading
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Blowing away taxpayers
(March 6, 2010) The Ontario government’s rush into renewable energy, and industrial wind turbine generated electricity in particular, is likely to reveal the law of unintended consequences. Continue reading
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Audit the Ontario government’s green programs, says Trebilcock-Wilson report for Energy Probe
(March 5, 2010) Ontario’s strategy of picking winners likely to fail. Ontario’s provincial auditor or other independent groups should periodically audit the programs and subsidies being offered through the recently passed Green Energy Act to ensure the programs are producing the promised environmental and economic benefits, says an Energy Probe report published today by Michael Trebilcock, Professor of Law and Economics at the University of Toronto, and James Wilson, a recent University of Toronto Law School Graduate. Continue reading
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